―A very enjoyable read … a plot that allows his characters to learn and grow from their experiences… Sparks is at his best.‖ —Greensboro News-Record (NC) ― The depth and richness of Ronnie’s character unfolds as you are taken along her summer journey in this coming of age novel… The powerful emotions that Sparks brings to the reader are so moving they bring one to tears. It is truly a very fluent and expressive work of the human heart and brought joy to me as a reader that I have not felt in quite some time.” — , New YorkThΒιβλιοθήκη Last SongPlot
Seventeen-year-old Veronica ―Ronnie‖ Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father… until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him. Resentful and rebellious, Ronnie rejects her father’s attempts to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer’s end. But soon Ronnie meets Will, the last person she thought she’d ever be attracted to, and finds herself falling for him, opening herself up to the great happiness — and pain — that she has ever known.
Nicholas Sparks
NICHOLAS SPARKS is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, an author with nine #1 New York Times bestsellers and over 50 million copies of his books in print worldwide. All his books were translated into more than 50 languages.
About Nicholas Sparks
Name Born Occupation Nicholas Charles Sparks December 31, 1965 (age 49) Novelist, screenwriter, producer University of Notre Dame
Alma mater
Genre
Romantic fiction; Romanticdrama
Cathy Sparks (m. 1989-2015, separated) 5
Spouse
Children
Early life
Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska. His father is a professor of business, and his mother is a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother a younger sister (1966–2000), who died at the age of 33 from a brain tumor. He graduated in 1984 as valedictorian from Bella Vista High School, then enrolling at the University of Notre Dame, having received a full track and field scholarship. He majored in business finance and graduated with honors in 1988. He also met his future wife that year, Cathy Cote from New Hampshire, while they were both on spring break. They married on July 22, 1989 and moved to New Bern, North Carolina.
Personal life and philanthropy
Sparks and wife Cathy lived together in New Bern, North Carolina with their three sons and twin daughters until 2014. On January 6, 2015, Sparks announced that he and his wife had separated.
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly reported that Sparks and his wife had donated "close to $10 million" to start a Christian, international, college-prep private school, The Epiphany School of Global Studies, which emphasizes travel and lifelong learning.
Career
Sparks was inspired to start writing by a remark from his mother when he was 19 years old. He has written 2 unpublished novel during his college. After college, Sparks sought work with publishers and to attend law school, but was rejected in both attempts. He then spent the next three years trying other careers, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone and starting his own manufacturing business. In 1993 in Washington, DC he wrote another novel in his spare time, The Notebook. Two years later, he was discovered by literary agent Theresa Park, who picked The Notebook out of her agency's slush pile, liked it, and offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for The Notebook from Time Warner Book Group. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the New York Times best-seller list in its first week of release.
Dear Ronnie, I don’t even know how to start a letter like this, other than to say that I’m sorry. … I can’t deny that things are going to be different, but I want you to know that if I were in your shoes, I would probably feel much the way you do. You have every right to be angry with me. You have every right to be disappointed in me. I suppose I’ve earned the feeling you have, and it’s not my intent to try to make excuses or cast any blame or try to convince you that might understand it in time. … I hope that in your heart, you’ll find some way to forgive me for leaving. It doesn’t have to be now, or even soon. But I want you to know this: When you’re finally ready, I’ll be waiting with open arms on what will be the happiest day of my life. I love you, Dad